Deborah O’Donoghue is a British-Irish writer who has lived in the UK, France and Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by Legend Press in 2019 and comes out in Germany in 2021. Follow Deborah on Twitter and Instagram.
For the majority of the world’s air passengers, a patch of turbulence is likely to be the most uncomfortable problem they will have experienced mid-air, and […]
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I wrote last week about the protests against overtourism in the Canaries. Protests which involved eleven people going on a twenty-day hunger strike. The Canary Islands are exhausted. […]
At least one person has been confirmed dead and some 30 injured after a Singapore Airlines flight headed to the city nation suddenly lost altitude after […]
New Caldonia, a French overseas territory in the Pacific Ocean, has been overtaken by riots for about a week, causing the airport to close and trapping […]
Since a gang uprising began on 29 February, Haiti, especially capital Port-au-Prince, has been on lockdown, with tourists and locals alike trapped inside the rioting city. […]
A new low-fare train service could be coming to tracks between London Euston and Rochdale in Greater Manchester if a recent route application by FirstGroup is […]
In signs of more unrest in the hospitality and tourism sector in the Spanish Balearic Islands, a hoteliers’ organisation has demanded “a strategic plan” to address […]
Imagine a world without the music of John Coltrane or Charlie “Bird” Parker. Imagine Tom Jobim’s “The Girl from Ipanema” without the lush sounds of Stan […]
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